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Mark F Watts
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· Feb 22
US wants Europe to do more for defense—let’s take them up on it! 🇪🇺 European NATO is 10x richer than Russia, so defending ourselves without US is perfectly possible. Let’s agree a friendly 10-year transition, stay allies, & then they can hand back US bases. Time for Europe to step up to the plate! ⚖️💪
Your ultimate guide to the latest breakthroughs, trends, and opportunities shaping EU-UK transport relations! #Transport #Trade #Technology #EuropeanParliament #EU #UK #EUUKReset #UKTIE
🚆 Transport Chronicles 16th Edition!
Help Shape the Next Phase of UK-EU Transport & Trade Co-operation
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May 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Your ultimate guide to the latest breakthroughs, trends, and opportunities shaping EU-UK transport relations! #Transport #Trade #Technology #EuropeanParliament #EU #UK #EUUKReset #UKTIE
Help Shape the Next Phase of UK-EU Transport & Trade Co-operation: Thursday 3 April UKTiE Reset Event, London.
Transport Chronicles 15th Edition
Help Shape the Next Phase of UK-EU Transport & Trade Co-operation
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March 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Help Shape the Next Phase of UK-EU Transport & Trade Co-operation: Thursday 3 April UKTiE Reset Event, London.
UK & Europe. It's Time to Step Up & Rouse Our Inner Winston Churchill! Never surrender. Never Appease! Never Let Your Allies Down! Let’s negotiate a friendly 10-year transition with the US, ensuring a smooth handover of their security responsibilities and bases, while remaining strong allies.
Ukraine: UK and Continental Europe, It's Time to Discover Our Inner Winston Churchill
YouTube video by WattsUp!
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February 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
UK & Europe. It's Time to Step Up & Rouse Our Inner Winston Churchill! Never surrender. Never Appease! Never Let Your Allies Down! Let’s negotiate a friendly 10-year transition with the US, ensuring a smooth handover of their security responsibilities and bases, while remaining strong allies.
🇬🇧🇪🇺 Time for Europe to Step Up & Rouse Our Inner Winston Churchill! 💪🔥🛡️ On the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, we stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine. No surrender. No appeasement. If US support fades, Europe must step up.
February 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🇬🇧🇪🇺 Time for Europe to Step Up & Rouse Our Inner Winston Churchill! 💪🔥🛡️ On the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, we stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine. No surrender. No appeasement. If US support fades, Europe must step up.
US wants Europe to do more for defense—let’s take them up on it! 🇪🇺 European NATO is 10x richer than Russia, so defending ourselves without US is perfectly possible. Let’s agree a friendly 10-year transition, stay allies, & then they can hand back US bases. Time for Europe to step up to the plate! ⚖️💪
February 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
US wants Europe to do more for defense—let’s take them up on it! 🇪🇺 European NATO is 10x richer than Russia, so defending ourselves without US is perfectly possible. Let’s agree a friendly 10-year transition, stay allies, & then they can hand back US bases. Time for Europe to step up to the plate! ⚖️💪
US wants Europe to do more for defense—let’s take them up on it! 🇪🇺 European NATO is 10x richer than Russia, so defending ourselves without the US is perfectly possible.
Let’s agree a friendly 10-year transition, stay allies, and then hand back US bases. Time for Europe to step up to the plate! ⚖️💪
Let’s agree a friendly 10-year transition, stay allies, and then hand back US bases. Time for Europe to step up to the plate! ⚖️💪
Europe could need 300,000 more troops and an annual defence spending hike of at least €250 billion in the short term to deter Russian aggression, write Alexandr Burilkov and
@guntramwolff.bsky.social in our joint analysis with @kiel.institute. #EconSky
@guntramwolff.bsky.social in our joint analysis with @kiel.institute. #EconSky
Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed
Europe could need 300,000 more troops and an annual defence spending hike of at least €250 billion in the short term to deter Russian aggression
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February 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
US wants Europe to do more for defense—let’s take them up on it! 🇪🇺 European NATO is 10x richer than Russia, so defending ourselves without the US is perfectly possible.
Let’s agree a friendly 10-year transition, stay allies, and then hand back US bases. Time for Europe to step up to the plate! ⚖️💪
Let’s agree a friendly 10-year transition, stay allies, and then hand back US bases. Time for Europe to step up to the plate! ⚖️💪
Transport Chronicles 14th Edition! However fraught relations may be, goods and services must move more freely, and both sides must rise to the technological challenge. The case for greater UK-EU cooperation has never been stronger.
#transport #trade #technology #EUUK #UKTIE
#transport #trade #technology #EUUK #UKTIE
Transport Chronicles
A Defining Moment in UK-EU Relations
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February 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Transport Chronicles 14th Edition! However fraught relations may be, goods and services must move more freely, and both sides must rise to the technological challenge. The case for greater UK-EU cooperation has never been stronger.
#transport #trade #technology #EUUK #UKTIE
#transport #trade #technology #EUUK #UKTIE
Reposted by Mark F Watts
Diet Coke, Guns and Great Politics.
This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.
February 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Diet Coke, Guns and Great Politics.
As the Statement by the members of the Council of the European Union on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day says: 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄.
#HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2025 #neverforget #neveragain
#HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2025 #neverforget #neveragain
Statement by the members of the European Council on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The members of the European Council issued a statement on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi co...
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January 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
As the Statement by the members of the Council of the European Union on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day says: 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄.
#HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2025 #neverforget #neveragain
#HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2025 #neverforget #neveragain
Trump 2.0. Disrupter or product of a broken system?
January 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Trump 2.0. Disrupter or product of a broken system?
I'm thrilled to announce that on the 'morning after the night before' of the Trump inauguration, I'll be sharing my ideas AND having a powerful conversation with the brilliant Becky Slack co-director of Agenda.
📢 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝟮.𝟬 – 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 & 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀!
📢 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝟮.𝟬 – 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 & 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀!
January 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I'm thrilled to announce that on the 'morning after the night before' of the Trump inauguration, I'll be sharing my ideas AND having a powerful conversation with the brilliant Becky Slack co-director of Agenda.
📢 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝟮.𝟬 – 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 & 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀!
📢 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝟮.𝟬 – 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 & 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀!
Control the Oligarchs. What do you think? Are these forces increasingly incompatible with modern democratic values? youtu.be/VtHcfAqT5Do
Control the Oligarchs - What do you think?
YouTube video by WattsUp!
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January 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Control the Oligarchs. What do you think? Are these forces increasingly incompatible with modern democratic values? youtu.be/VtHcfAqT5Do
WattsUp! Don't despair. Tyrants always fall. Let's ensure the monsters of greed & fear are vanquished, & the the values of #freedom #democracy #equality are strengthened. Let's become the guardians of democracy. Happy New Year! Read my Substack article & subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/mark518/...
January 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
WattsUp! Don't despair. Tyrants always fall. Let's ensure the monsters of greed & fear are vanquished, & the the values of #freedom #democracy #equality are strengthened. Let's become the guardians of democracy. Happy New Year! Read my Substack article & subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/mark518/...
⚔️ Will "The EUForce Awaken" and take the lead over the next five years, or will the next European elections witness the "Revenge of Bardella" ? The choice is ours. Do or do not. There is no try!🌟💪🌍 After all, five years time is not far, far away!
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www.linkedin.com/posts/markfw...
Mark Watts FCILT FRSA on LinkedIn: #theeuforceawakens #doordonotthereisnotry
🌍✨ Will "The EUForce Awaken" - or will it be "Revenge of Bardella"?🌌
The European Project faces a pivotal moment. With Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission…
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November 28, 2024 at 7:37 AM
⚔️ Will "The EUForce Awaken" and take the lead over the next five years, or will the next European elections witness the "Revenge of Bardella" ? The choice is ours. Do or do not. There is no try!🌟💪🌍 After all, five years time is not far, far away!
www.linkedin.com/posts/markfw...
www.linkedin.com/posts/markfw...
Farage backs a 2nd UK election because he didn’t like the 1st. 🤔 Hypocrisy at its finest—classic sixth-form politics. With Trump, the king of it, 8 weeks from office, how do we counter the populist right? Let’s share ideas! ✌️
November 26, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Farage backs a 2nd UK election because he didn’t like the 1st. 🤔 Hypocrisy at its finest—classic sixth-form politics. With Trump, the king of it, 8 weeks from office, how do we counter the populist right? Let’s share ideas! ✌️
✈️ How Can We Truly Decarbonise European Aviation? ✨ Pleasure speaking with Amon Cohen, Business Travel News Europe, sharing my thoughts on the future of aviation in Europe! 🚀 Aviation GHG emissions forecast to rise despite EU measures. We need an honest debate!
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November 25, 2024 at 9:30 AM
✈️ How Can We Truly Decarbonise European Aviation? ✨ Pleasure speaking with Amon Cohen, Business Travel News Europe, sharing my thoughts on the future of aviation in Europe! 🚀 Aviation GHG emissions forecast to rise despite EU measures. We need an honest debate!
Welcome to the Eleventh Edition of Transport Chronicles!
The latest news on UK and EU transport and trade.
- today the Transport Committee of the European Parliament meets with a Hearing on Passenger Rights
-update on the UK EU reset for transport
And much more!
#transport #trade #EUUK
The latest news on UK and EU transport and trade.
- today the Transport Committee of the European Parliament meets with a Hearing on Passenger Rights
-update on the UK EU reset for transport
And much more!
#transport #trade #EUUK
Transport Chronicles 11: EU & UK Transport & Trade Priorities Emerge
The UK-EU Reset: Opportunities for Stronger Transport and Trade Connections
open.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Welcome to the Eleventh Edition of Transport Chronicles!
The latest news on UK and EU transport and trade.
- today the Transport Committee of the European Parliament meets with a Hearing on Passenger Rights
-update on the UK EU reset for transport
And much more!
#transport #trade #EUUK
The latest news on UK and EU transport and trade.
- today the Transport Committee of the European Parliament meets with a Hearing on Passenger Rights
-update on the UK EU reset for transport
And much more!
#transport #trade #EUUK